Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18

"A great many who saw the parade yester-
| day realized that Connecticut's "citizen SOL
| diers'' are worth having.
The possibility of premature burial has
been we'll guarded against by the Madrid au-
| thorities. The municipal cemetery has been
provided with an electric signalling apparatus
| which will notify the officials of the slightest
! movement in any coffin in the receiving
vault.
High license is seriously interfering with
the rum traffic in Missouri The statute
makes no distinction between beer saloons
and rum shops and the fee for State license
| ranges from $3.50 to 81 200, the amount being
| fixed by the county courts. Towns and cities
are permitted to impose second license and
| most of them improve the privilege, in some
cases putting the fees at an almost prohibitive
figure. in some cases the town license fee
runs as high as 81, 500 or 50, 900 in addition
to the State fee. The revenue to the State
and county treasures from licenses last year
| was 81 ,533, ,594 and the towns reaped hand
some revenue besides. The result is that the
whole number of licensed saloons in Missouri
has been reduced to 1924.
The noble order of Knights of Labor has
| business enough on hand nowadays. The
silversmiths have generally gone back to
| work with pledge to their employers not to
have anything to do with any organization
| that undertakes to interfere with their rela-
tions to those employers. The chasers have
not yet come in and may not do so, but prob
ably will. The Hat Salesmen's association
have left the Knights of Labor and form
an open union of their own. The Central
Labor union is seeking to compel brewer to
| disobey the requirements of union of his
the Walters union is angry with District
Assembly No. 40 for patronizing hotel with
| which Its members have quarrel.
Mr.. W. w. Kimball of Boston asserts that
of all the food adulterations which are prac-
| ticed in this country that of lard is the most
| alarming. He says, among other things: A
very prominent business house in Philadel-
phia, being large wholesale dealers in pork
| products, stated frankly to a gentleman rep
resenting large house in Boston that he had
sold thousands upon thousands of tierces of
mixtures which were branded "Refned
Lard" while as matter of fact there was
not one ounce of real hogs lard in the whole
compound. If the substitutes of pure lard
could be compelled to carry their true brand
| the competition between the two articles
would be more equitable and all honest
packers would profit thereby. One large
house in New York, which prior to the intro
| duction of spurious and adulterated lards
made an annual sale of 900 tierces of
pure lard, have now by reason of these spuri-
GUS productions been reduced to less than
| one.third their former business, or 10000
tierces annually.
The Civil Service Record does not think
much of the new rules. 1t says: We ven
| ture to predict that where there is already
| disinterested and (able-to- resist -pressure)
| head of a; bureau, and where consequently
there is little need of reform, all will go
we'll; but that. where there is submission to
political pressure and personal influence,
these new rules will do very little, if any,
good It should be remembered that the
| heads of bureaus are not appointed under
| the civil-service rules, that they can be re-
moved and their places filed with partisans,
and that it is only under reform admins
| tration that this is not done in a wholesale
| fashion. We doubt if the new rules will pro-
mote increased efficiency. As long as the
head of a bureau makes promotions on basis
of official merit, there is efficiency now. If,
however, selections are made on any other
basis, they will continue to be made without
regard to the standing on the lists. There
will then be no encouragement to try to
stand any higher than will secure passing the
minimum, and political backing will still be
required in every Office where it is required
now.